Owen Sound Sun Times

Grey-Bruce municipalities concerned about spike in OPP costs

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Some Grey-Bruce municipalities are expressing concern as they stare down significant increases to OPP policing costs in 2025.  But they remain hopeful that the province will provide some relief.  Area municipalities looking at particularly steep increases are Brockton, whose increase has come it at 30 per cent, and Meaford, which has been presented with a 25 […]

Climate change Michigan Public

The fight to keep invasive grass carp out of the Great Lakes

9 min read

The Great Lakes system system is no stranger to invasive species, but grass carp could upend the Great Lakes’ ecology, as well as the operations of some of the world’s most significant freshwater commercial fisheries. So far, the Great Lakes have successfully held grass carp at bay. Those involved in managing the grass carp — not to mention the fishermen who rely on the abundance of native fish — can only hope that success is sustainable.